Alex tucked a stray lock of hair behind my ear.“Are you okay with sharing this place?I can stay in the main house if it makes you more comfortable.”
My whole miserable existence, I’d steeled myself not to react against all the shit that got flung my way.But somehow, the kindness had a way of seeping through the cracks and kicking me right in the feelings.Where had that lump in my throat come from?I tried to swallow it, but it seemed to be stuck.
“It’s fine.Just pick a room, and I’ll take the other one.”
Alex put his bag in the pool room and mine in the ocean room.Well, that turned out to be easier than I thought.Then he held out a hand, and call it intuition or sixth sense or whatever, but I knew that if I took it, my life wouldn’t be the same going forward.
Everything would change.
“Time for work,” he said.
I put my hand into his and let him lead me out the door.